New York, Jan 16 (IANS): Bangladeshi authorities should drop criminal charges against two senior members of the human rights group Odhikar and end the harassment of its workers, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists said on Thursday.

Washington, Jan 16 (IANS): Subra Suresh, Chennai-born Indian-American president of Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a rare and highly coveted distinction within the academic fraternity.

Washington, Jan 16 (IANS): As India and the US work to ease tensions after a bitter month long diplomatic spat, an influential US daily has suggested that the damage "to India-America relations is unlikely to dissipate soon.